| Author |
Story Title |
Issue Date |
Type |
Comments |
| Asimov, Isaac |
Science: Certainty of Uncertainty, The |
1965 APR |
sces |
uncertainty principle, Part 1; Part 2 in 1965 AUG(#2243) |
| |
Eyes Do More Than See |
1965 APR |
vi |
N-1965 NEB, short story; in his memoir of story in anth. #27, Asimov states it was based on an illus. from PBY; illus. story idea offered to 3 other authors by & incl. Algis Budrys, whose story "Now Hear the Word of the Lord" was pub. in GAL 1969 FEB |
| |
Science: To Tell a Chemist |
1965 MAY |
sces |
mole: gram molecular weights |
| |
Science: Future? Tense! |
1965 JUN |
sces |
sf writers predicting the future; mentions his story "Everest" in USF 1953 DEC, Cartmill's "Deadline" in ASF 1944 MAR, Heinlein's "Solution Unsatisfactory" in ASF 1941 MAY as by Anson MacDonald, H.G. Wells, etc; has sequel essay 1974 OCT(#3569) |
| |
Science: Exclamation Point! |
1965 JUL |
sces |
mathematics; the exclamation point, the mathematical factorial symbol; see addendum p.108 in 1965 NOV, concerning mistakes in his "Asimov Series" of numbers |
| |
Science: Behind the Teacher's Back |
1965 AUG |
sces |
uncertainty principle, Part 2; Part 1 in 1965 APR(#2194) |
| |
Science: Death In the Laboratory |
1965 SEP |
sces |
science; dangerous scientific experiments in history |
| |
Isaac Asimov Replies |
1965 OCT |
ar |
reply to two Soviets' view of American sf, #2259 |
| |
Science: Land of Mu, The |
1965 OCT |
sces |
subatomic particles |
| |
Science: Squ-u-u-ush! |
1965 NOV |
sces |
stars; the densest density, collapsed stars |
| |
Science: Water, Water, Everywhere |
1965 DEC |
sces |
oceans, seas & lakes |
| |
Science: Proton-Reckoner, The |
1966 JAN |
sces |
protons; Archimedes; how many protons are there in the Observable Universe?; has 5th coll. of F&SF science essays From Earth to Heaven(1966) |
| |
Science: Up and Down the Earth |
1966 FEB |
sces |
highest mountains, deepest ocean trenches |
| |
Science: Rocks of Damocles, The |
1966 MAR |
sces |
asteroids, Earth-grazing; meteorite craters on Earth, possible future collisions with Earth; has sequel science essay "Updating the Asteroids" in 1974 AUG(#3542); see essay on meteoric craters & the Tunguska, Siberia, impact explosion in 1990 SEP(#6225) |
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Science: Noblemen of Science, The |
1966 APR |
sces |
scientists; Nobel Prize winning scientists |
| |
Science: Time and Tide |
1966 MAY |
sces |
tides, on Earth and on other planets & satellites; has sequel science essay "A Long Day's Journey" in 1979 APR |
| |
Science: Isles of the Earth, The |
1966 JUN |
sces |
islands, island nations, island cities |
| |
Science: Balancing the Books |
1966 JUL |
sces |
Big Bang and the conservation of energy laws, Part 1 of 3; Part 2 in 1966 AUG(#2390), Part 3 in 1966 SEP(#2399) |
| |
Science: BB or Not BB, That Is the Question |
1966 AUG |
sces |
Big Bang, creation of the universe(cosmogony), Part 2 of 3; continuous creation(CC) or Big Bang(BB); Part 1 in 1966 AUG(#2377) & Part 3 in 1966 SEP(#2399) |
| |
Science: I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover |
1966 SEP |
sces |
Big Bang & the conservation of energy laws, Part 3 of 3; Asimov's Cosmogonic Principle; Part 1 in 1966 JUL(#2377) & Part 2 in 1966 AUG(#2390) |
| |
Key, The |
1966 OCT |
nv |
4th story in F&SF in Dr. Wendell Urth series; has coll. Asimov's Mysteries(1968) which collects his Urth & some of his Black Widower series stories; also has coll. The Best Mysteries of Isaac Asimov(1986), incl. this Urth story |
| |
Isaac Asimov: Bibliography, A |
1966 OCT |
bib |
a chronological listing of his books, magazine stories, science essays, & non-fiction books; an anlysis of Asimov's writings in the mystery genre can be seen at members.aol.com/MG4273/boucher.htm#Asimov |
| |
Science: Portrait of the Writer As a Boy |
1966 OCT |
sces |
personal reminiscence |
| |
Prime of Life, The |
1966 OCT |
pm |
has colls. Buy Jupiter, and Other Stories(1975), Have You Seen These?(1974 chap); coll. The Bicentennial Man(1976; W-1977 LOC), the title story 1st pub. in Judy-Lynn del Rey(ed): Stellar #2(1976), story W-1976 NEB; 1977 HUG, LOC, & made into 1999 movie |
| |
Science: Old Man River |
1966 NOV |
sces |
rivers; the Mississippi River, and other great rivers; see related essay, "The Longest River" in 1988 JUL(#5859), which discusses the effects that the Nile, Tigris, & Euphrates Rivers had on civilizations |
| |
Science: Symbol-Minded Chemist, The |
1966 DEC |
sces |
elements; the symbols used for the elements |
| |
Science: Right Beneath Your Feet |
1967 JAN |
sces |
cities; antipodal points of cities of the world(antipodal: directly opposite side of globe) |
| |
Science: Impossible, That's All! |
1967 FEB |
sces |
speed of light, Part 1, his 100th essay - you can't go faster than light; see 1968 OCT(#2704) response by Arthur C. Clarke about ftl travel, & Asimov rebuttal; Part 2 in 1969 DEC(#2854) |
| |
Science: Crowded! |
1967 MAR |
sces |
overpopulation, the biggest cities; see sequel, "More Crowded!" in 1980 MAY(#4445), & related essays "The Power of Progression" in 1969 MAY(#2781), & "Is Anyone Listening?" in 1988 MAY(#5846) |
| |
Science: Matter of Scale, A |
1967 APR |
sces |
solar system & universe; putting the solar system & universe to scale |
| |
Science: Times of Our Lives, The |
1967 MAY |
sces |
time zones |
| |
Science: Non-Time Travel |
1967 JUN |
sces |
international date line |
| |
Science: Twelve Point Three Six Nine |
1967 JUL |
sces |
numbers; numerical ratios & relationships, and how they've led to popular beliefs |
| |
Science: Kaleidoscope in the Sky |
1967 AUG |
sces |
satellites Phobos & Deimos, the moons of Mars; see 3-part sequel to this science essay in 1977-78 NOV-JAN(#4041, 4054, 4067) |
| |
Science: Great Borning, The |
1967 SEP |
sces |
geological eras, the Cambrian "explosion" of life forms, the effects of a much closer moon |
| |
Science: Music to My Ears |
1967 OCT |
sces |
keys, octaves & musical scales |
| |
Science: Knock Plastic! |
1967 NOV |
sces |
superstitions & popular fallacies |
| |
Science: First Metal, The |
1967 DEC |
sces |
elements; metals, Part 1 of 3, the 7 metals known from ancient times(iron, copper, lead, tin, mercury, silver & gold); most likely, gold was discovered first; Part 2 in 1968 JAN(#2581), & Part 3 in 1968 FEB(#2597) |
| |
Science: Seventh Metal, The |
1968 JAN |
sces |
elements; metals, Part 2 of 3, the 7 ancient metals; this time, mostly about mercury; Part 1 in 1967 DEC(#2568), & Part 3 in 1968 FEB(#2597); has 6th coll. of F&SF science essays Science, Numbers, and I(1968) |
| |
Science: Predicted Metal, The |
1968 FEB |
sces |
elements; metals, Part 3 of 3, the 7 ancient metals; this time, mostly about gallium; Part 1 in 1967 DEC(#2568), & Part 2 in 1968 JAN(#2581) |
| |
Science: Seventh Planet, The |
1968 MAR |
sces |
planets, Part 1 of 3; this time mostly Mercury & Venus; Part 2 in 1968 APR (#2621), & Part 3 in 1968 MAY(#2632); Asimov has pub. many stories in mags. outside the genre in Gallery, PST, Escapade, Cavalier |
| |
Science: Dance of the Sun, The |
1968 APR |
sces |
planets, Part 2 of 3; the "wobble" effect the planets have on the sun; Part 1 & 3 in 1968 MAR & MAY; addendum p.91, says his planet essays this month & last, similar to Robert S. Richardson's "Venus and Mercury—Locked Planets?" in ANA 1967 NOV |
| |
Science: Backward, Turn Backward |
1968 MAY |
sces |
planets, Part 3 of 3; their orbits, orbital tipping of planets & their satellites, & axial tipping; Part 1 in 1968 MAR(#2609), & Part 2 in 1968 APR(#2621) |
| |
Science: Counting Chromosomes |
1968 JUN |
sces |
chromosomes during sexual reproduction & cell division, the x & y chromosomes; see addendum p.118 in F&SF 1968 SEP, a Polish woman athlete was probably an XXX super-female, & not an XYY, as stated |
| |
Books |
1968 JUL |
br |
James D. Watson: The Double Helix |
| |
Key Item |
1968 JUL |
vi |
has Black Widowers ser. colls. Tales of the Black Widowers(1974), More Tales of B.W.(1976), Casebook of the B.W.(1980), Banquets of the B.W.(1984), & Puzzles of the B.W.(1990); stories in ser. pub. mostly in EQMM 1972-91; one by Charles Ardai in 2002 DEC |
| |
Science: Little Lost Satellite |
1968 JUL |
sces |
asteroids; the 4 largest asteroids: Ceres, Pallas, Juno, & Vesta; see addendum p.108 in 1968 OCT(#2708), Vesta could have been a satellite of the planet between Earth & Mars |
| |
Science: Terrible Lizards, The |
1968 AUG |
sces |
dinosaurs, Part 1 of 2, and how they are classified; Part 2 in 1968 SEP(#2692) |
| |
Anthony Boucher |
1968 AUG |
obit |
a tribute to the late Anthony Boucher |
| |
Science: Dying Lizards, The |
1968 SEP |
sces |
dinosaurs, Part 2 of 2, and what could have killed them off?; Part 1 in 1968 AUG(#2674) |
